After college, Conan landed a few television writing jobs, but none of them went anywhere. From 1988 until 1991, he wrote skits and jokes for the late night weekly television series Saturday Night Live. He left that show to work on a series that flopped, and was later hired as a writer for The Simpsons. He wrote the episodes "Marge vs. the Monorail" (9F10) and "Homer Goes to College" (1F02).